[gmx-users] are TPR files compatible across minor version changes?

[Justin A. Lemkul]

Peter C. Lai wrote:
> Are TPR files compatible across minor gromacs version changes?
> Like if I have a TPR generated under 4.5.3 can I feed it into mdrun on 4.5.4
> or should I re-grompp my initial files?
> 

Minor versions shouldn't present a problem.  According to src/gmxlib/tpxio.c, 
the .tpr version hasn't incremented between 4.5.3 and 4.5.4 and generally, 
Gromacs programs are backwards-compatible.  But since it just takes a few 
seconds to run grompp to be sure, I don't see why you wouldn't.

-Justin

> Thanks

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Justin A. Lemkul
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Virginia Tech
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